Downdetector
downdetector.com
Real-time outage and problem reports for thousands of websites and services, crowdsourced from user reports.
Why it is useful
The fastest way to tell whether "the internet is broken" is an actual service-wide outage or just your own connection, crowdsourced in real time from thousands of other affected users before official status pages catch up.
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